Why Are You Using FreeBSD?

[Jason Leschnik]

I've only been using FreeBSD for about ~2 years, the thing i really
like about FreeBSD is the stability of the configuration system.
Placement of configuration files and startup scripts make life easier
in daily administration.

The things i'm using FreeBSD for?

# Gateway Router
# Squid Proxy cache
# Web Server (Apache 2.2)
#> Wordpress Blog
# Primary/Secondary DNS (Bind)
# DHCP
# PXE Boot machine
# Syslog Server
# Firewall (very much in love with PF)

I'm not really confident with updates yet, still learning so yet to
push a FreeBSD machine into production.

Thanks.

On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 4:52 AM, Pierre-Luc Drouin
<pldrouin at pldrouin.net> wrote:
> On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 2:20 PM, David Chisnall <theraven at freebsd.org>wrote:
>
>> Hi Everyone,
>>
>> This is off-topic, so please feel free to disregard it, but I'm sending it
>> to this list in the hope that it will reach a largish number of users.
>>
>> I am currently looking at updating some of our advocacy material (which
>> advertises exciting new features like SMP support), and before I do I'd
>> like to get a better feel for why the rest of you are using FreeBSD.  If
>> you had to list the three things you most like about FreeBSD, which would
>> you pick?  Are they the same as when you first started using it?
>>
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>
> For me it is:
>
> -Stability
> -Well-structured OS (i.e. filesystem, kernel and its config, etc)
> -The ports system
>
> These are also the elements that made me start using FreeBSD about a decade
> ago. So these are mainly consequences of the development strategy of
> FreeBSD, as opposed to the free for all approach of Linux. Personally, what
> makes me choose Linux over FreeBSD for laptop usage is the very limited
> acpi support of FreeBSD (suspend and resume) compared to Linux.
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Regards,
Jason Leschnik.

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